page_title: Mike Johanns
section_title: Millennium Challenge Corporation
hierarchical_section_title: Mike Johanns / Millennium Challenge Corporation
caption_attribution_description: Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo delivers remarks at the Millennium Challenge Corporation Board Meeting, at the Department of State in Washington, D.C., on December 9, 2019. [State Department photo by Ron Przysucha/ Public Domain]
context_page_description: Michael Owen Johanns is an American attorney and politician who served as a United States Senator from Nebraska from 2009 to 2015. He served as the 38th governor of Nebraska from 1999 until 2005, and was chair of the Midwestern Governors Association in 2002. In 2005, he was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as the Secretary of Agriculture, where he served from 2005 to 2007, becoming the fourth Nebraskan to hold that position.
  Born in Osage, Iowa, Johanns is the graduate of Saint Mary's University of Minnesota and Creighton University School of Law. He began his career as an attorney working in private practice before clerking for the Nebraska Supreme Court. Elected to the Lancaster County Board as a Democrat in 1983, Johanns served there until 1987, and was elected to the Lincoln City Council in 1988. He was elected the 47th mayor of Lincoln in 1991 and reelected in 1995.
  In Nebraska's 1998 gubernatorial election, Johanns defeated Democratic political aide Bill Hoppner, and in 2002 he was reelected over insurance executive Stormy Dean. In 2008, Johanns ran for the Republican nomination to replace retiring U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel.
context_section_description: In December 2015, President Barack Obama nominated Johanns to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Millennium Challenge Corporation. This nomination was confirmed by a voice vote of the U.S. Senate in February 2016. In March 2019, President Donald Trump nominated him for a second term on the board.
caption: Johanns (right) at a board meeting of the Millennium Challenge Corporation in 2019
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